Le lundi 30 octobre 2006 19:02, Rob a écrit :
> On Sunday 29 October 2006 19:30, Michael Scherer wrote:
> > from what i have seen, we can read wmv9 without trouble using
> > mplayer, and i guess, gstreamer ffmpeg. Quicktime is said to
> > be implemented too,
>
> I'd feel more comfortable if Quicktime (by which I assume you
> mean the Sorensen codec, since h.264 should be playable using
> other means) were verifiably implemented rather than just
> claimed to be.  But I have to admit that the advent of flash
> video, as terrible as it is, has made it a lot easier to watch
> videos under Linux.
>
> > If not, wouldn't it be the moment to remove this problematic
> > package ?
>
> I'll echo other people and ask what exactly makes win32-codecs
> more problematic than, say, the Nvidia driver or the Flash
> plugin.

Just compare the license of nvidia to the lack of license of those codecs.



-- 
Michael Scherer
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